A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle

Author(s) : Rikke Ludvigsen

A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle

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Table of Contents


1. Introduction to trauma-informed work and the Circle of Safety and Reconnection

2. Preventing stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue

3. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 1: Assessing the current risk to the child’s safety, health, development, and well-being

4. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 2: An overview of the child’s trauma history, diagnoses, and current state of mind

5. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 3: Parents’ trauma, diagnosis, intergenerational trauma, and their impact on parenting skills

6. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 4: Assessing the ACEs and other important risk factors in the child’s life;

7. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 5: Assessing positive childhood experiences and other important protective factors in the child’s life

8. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 6: Assessing the adequate care and protection of the child by parents and other significant adults and the positive impact on the child’s health, well-being, and development

9. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 7: Setting the right goals to create safety, health, development, and well-being for the child

10. The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, Step 8: Create an action, treatment, or safety plan with clear agreements on following up

11. Closing the trauma circle and opening a healing circle instead

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